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Books write themselves (like life)

The relationships between plotting/planning and ‘real creation’ 📝

Books write themselves (like life)
New Stephen King book idea: Possessed typewriter | Photo by Patrick Fore / Unsplash

This could be seen as a bit of a niche Daily Reminder topic—writing—but I think there's a wider message here.

I'm writing a book at the moment, so I keep Mondays as free as possible for that. (I also dip in at other times.)

And what better way to get my head into it, but to once more read Stephen King's masterful On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.

Although he's a fiction writer and my genre is more along the lines of Personal Development/Self help/Spirituality (I don't choose these headings), there's much to be appreciated from this delightfully lighthearted and insightful text.

(If you write, you should read it, and I'm not even going to add a red flag to that particular ‘should’ 😉)

Anyway, he's talking about the parts of a story, and lists three: